Conservation Quotes

A collection of short conservation quotes. Reading these quotes on conservation is a good reminder to us all!

"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children."
Audobon
Father |

"If we do not permit the Earth to produce beauty and joy,
it will in the end not produce food either."
Joseph Woodkrutch
Thought Provoking |

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to
save the environment."
Ansel Adams
Environment |

"Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless
it takes a serious look at its lifestyle."
Pope John Paul II
Lifestyle |

"The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets
which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not
impaired, in value."
Theodore Roosevelt
Positive |

"Only after the last tree has been cut down.
Only after the last river has been poisoned.
Only after the last fish has been caught.
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."
Native Cree Prophecy
Poetry |

"Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land,
our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law."
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Love |

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because
he could do only a little."
Edmund Burke
Mistake |

"Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the
land has the same desperate finality as having to chop
up the furniture to keep warm."
Aldo Leopold
Defeat |

"The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives."
Chinese Proverb
Proverbs |

"We abuse the land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
When we see land as a community to which we belong,
we may begin to use it with love and respect."
Aldo Leopold
Thoughtful |

"What we do on land is mirrored
in the water…"
Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority
Pollution |

"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection
of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another."
Gandhi
Forest |

"Conservation means the wise use of the earth and
its resources for the lasting good of men."
Gifford Pinchot
Motivational |

"There's an old North American Indian saying:
The sky is held up by the trees.
If the forest disappears, the sky-roof of the world collapses.
Nature and man then perish together."
M.S. Swaminathan
Poems about Life |

"What a country chooses to save is what a
country chooses to say about itself."
Mollie Beattie
Choices |

"Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment."
Rene DubosDecision |

"Let us... permit nature to take her own way; she better understands
her own affairs than we."
Michel de Montaigne
Unharvested |

"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the
wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have
for destruction."
Rachel Carson
Reduce, Recycle, Reuse |

"To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust
the land instead of using it so as to increase it's usefulness,
will result in undermining in the days of our children the very
properity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified
and developed."
Theodore Roosevelt
Children |

"The purpose of conservation:
The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time."
Gifford Pinchot
Abundance |

"Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists,
and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants."
Stewart Udall
Life |

"If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind,
they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made
by God, they are called developers."
Joseph Wood Krutch
Attitude |

"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is
our only legitimate hope of survival."
Wendell Berry
Hope |